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J. KIN-LEYSIDE. wringing Machine.

No. 237,547. Patented Feb. 8,1881

' ETERS FOTO-LITHOGRA HER. WASHINGTON UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN KINLEYSIDE, OF HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WRlNGlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 237,547, dated February 8, 1881. Application filed September 16, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN KINLEYsIDE, of the city of Hamilton, in the county of Wentworth, in the province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, machinist, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wringing-Machines for Wringing Clothes, and of which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to that class of wringers in which the removal of the same from the tub releases the pressure of the rollers on each other, thus preventing the formation of flat places on the rollers; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is an end view of the wringingmachine, and Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the same, with apron J shown in dotted lines.

In the drawings, A A represent the frame of the machine, connected together by the cross-bar I, to which both these parts are firmly secured by nuts at each end. Swinging on this bar are the levers B, each having a bearing for the roller G, and their lower arms forming, in connection with the screws L, a clamp for securing the machine to the tub, as shown in Fig. 1. At the upper part of the frame are two-levers, (3, working in fulcrums D, attached to or forming partof the frame A. One end of each of these levers is provided with a bearing for the rollerF, and the other ends have hooks or projections h, to receive the ends of the springs K, the other ends of which rest on corresponding projections a on the frame A.

When the machine has been placed on the tub, as shown in Fig. 1, the turning of the screws L will fasten the wringer in place and bring the rollers in contact with each other. The more the screw isturned the harder will the rollers bear on .each other, so that the pressure of the rollers may be increased at will to suit the varying material to be passed between the rollers.

It will be observed that the pivots l) and I of the two sets of levers B G are so arranged that the pivots of each set of levers placed on the tub and the upper roller adjusted, by turning the screws L the lower ends of the levers A will be moved outwardly and the upper ends in an opposite direction, thus moving the levers O, and the rod they carry, horizontally, or nearly so, whereby the pressure of the rollers is more gradually increased.

When the machine is taken off the tub, the lower roller, G, which works in the part of the frameB, drops down from the upper one, (there being a bearing, H, on the upper part of the frame A for the beam O to rest on to prevent its following the roller G,) so that the rollers cannot be flattened and the machine weakened by being constantly under pressure; but when the machine is placed on the tub, and the adjusting-screw L brought up to the outside of it, the machine is in workingorder, all ready to pass the clothes through, but by tightening up the screws L the pressure will be increased but this is only necessary when the thinnest texture of articles are to be wrung. The back part of the frame B is flanged to cover the space between the ends of the rolls and their bearings in the frame to protect the clothes in wringing. The apron J is hinged around the lever-bar I, on which it works. this apron is tocarry the clothes away from the outside of the tub to keep them frombeing soiled.

The machine is put together as follows: The

parts of the frame A and B being placed onthe lever-bar I, with the rollers in their bearings and the apron T on the bar I, the parts B being first placed on to work loosely, then the parts A fitted on outside of them and held with a nut screwed on end of bar I, the springs K are compressed and sprung into their bearings, and the machine is complete.

Having explained my invention, what I- claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination, with a wringer-frame, A I, of two sets of levers, B 0, each set of levers being pivoted to said frame on axes each in substantially the same horizontal plane with the axis of the roller carried by said set of levers when said rollers are in working position, and spring K, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the wringer-frame The object of each provided with a stop, H, projection a, and clamp-screw L, of the levers B, swinging on the cross-bar I, and carrying the roll Gr, 15 levers O, pivoted to the arm A, and carrying the roll F, and provided with the projections h, and spring K, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN KINLEYSIDE.

Witnesses JOHN H. YOUNG,

MATHEW WILsoN. 

